Europe's problem is not seeking roles for specific persons but changing its policies, as the European Union's citizens demand, said PASOK leader and government Vise President Evangelos Venizelos when in Brussels where he participated on the European Socialists’ (PES) summit that precedes the EU summit on initiating procedures to choose the next president of the European Commission.

Jean-Claude Juncker is the first to be given the European Parliament’s mandate to build a supportive majority to his candidacy. If this fails, Martin Schulz is next in line.